Motivational Quotes

Courage

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter